Mexican American History Midterm 1 Exams Questions
With Complete Solutions
"Hispanic" refers to your race. Correct Answer False
A mental shortcut, or generalization, used to describe an entire
group of people, (often leading to bais) is a Correct Answer
Stereotype
A newspaper article commemorating the 150thanniversary the
Civil War Correct Answer secondary source
A newspaper article covering the bombing of Hiroshima
Correct Answer primary source
A pejorative or derogatory term is Correct Answer Meant to
insult or imply a group is inferior
A tweet
(but not this one:) Correct Answer primary source
According to "Why People are Using the Term Latinx" when
did LGBTQ+ activists first start to use "Latinx?" Correct
Answer In the mid 2000s when it was popularized by the
internet.
According to Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's excerpt in the
readings (Mexican American Voices Chapter 1 reading 1), what
did indigenous people do when other Spanish people came
through? Correct Answer
, According to Eulalia Pérez (Mexican American VoicesChapter
1, reading 5.1), women took care of most of the non-agricultural
or building work at the missions except for giving out rations.
Correct Answer False
According to Pablo Tac (Mexican American VoicesChapter 1,
reading 5.1), what do indigenous children learn in school at the
missions? Correct Answer
According to TedEd's "A Day in the Life of an Aztec Midwife"
what does the midwife tell the newborn baby? Correct Answer
You are a warrior; this world is full of pain
According to the clip "Entrance Fee Baptism," what did the
priests at Mission San Jose do to encourage conversion? Correct
Answer Turn the native cemeteries into catholic ones (which
meant you had to be Catholic/ baptized to be buried there).
According to the Creation Story of the Maya, when the twin
heroes wanted to bring their father back from death, what did
they do? Correct Answer They challenged the gods of the
underworld to a ball game
According to the Pero Like "What is a Pocha" video what does
the derogatory term "Pocha/ Pocho" mean? Correct Answer A
Mexican American born in the U.S. who doesn't speak Spanish
According to Vox's "Why the U.S. Celebrates Columbus Day,"
why did the United States begin to celebrate Columbus so
much? Correct Answer Presidents believed that he was like
them and wanted to celebrate him.
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